During the Korean War, in 1952, Margaret Bourke-White traveled with the South Korean Army, photographing the war for Life magazine.

During the Korean War, in 1952, Margaret Bourke-White traveled with the South Korean Army, photographing the war for Life magazine.

During the Korean War, in 1952, Margaret Bourke-White traveled with the South Korean Army, photographing the war for Life magazine. In these startling images, she captured the hard, gruesome truth of war.

A South Korean holds the severed head of a North Korean Communist guerrilla by the hair as a member of the South Korean National Police, smiles broadly, with an axe over his shoulder, Cholla Poktuk, South Korea, November 17, 1952.

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She spent nine months there, traveling through the wilderness, surviving typhoons, gunfire, and ambushes, and photographing guerilla warfare.